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Bitches, am I right?

I never thought it would come to this, but @Graeme: it's tattoos or ham. You can't have both.

Dude, it is a COMPLETELY idiotic option! If you slow down our ham eating odyssey, I will never forgive you!

I'm glad she's ok and I am hoping the best for you guys. She looks so sweet. Cats are the best.

Chiming in on this late, but @SeeSea I am crossing my fingers for your sweet kitty.

With thigh tattoos (especially big ones) it has taken me up to two weeks til I'm not sore anymore.

Unless your pants are super tight I am sure it's fine!!

I think you agree with me then?

I'm just saying that we should beware the hubris of mocking how ugly a former tattoo trend while thinking that our current tastes are timeless and will never seem outdated to anybody. I love my traditional tattoos, but I also know that they will look very much of their time and uncool to people somewhere down the road. Tastes change. No one and no style is immune.

I hope this board still exists in ten years so that I can read the equivalent thread to this that makes fun of how absurd traditional tattoos are.

I love it, @semele !

I just want to say that I hate healing my inner thighs and I am the grossest right now.

As long as they're good tattoos, I don't really care what suddenly takes off as a trend. What sucks is that trendy stuff invites a lot of imitators who copy without knowing what they're doing (there's a lot of really wonky mandalas out there, for example). But I find it hard to care, particularly as a client, what images are "trending" as long as they're done well. None of us are all that original.

Yes! (husband/enabler)

You two...

Personally, I have found my leg tattoos hardest to heal. Mine stay wet and stick to shit for a couple of days. I am sure you haven't ruined it, but I would definitely suggest you wear the loosest pants you can til the thing calms down!

Doesn't look like anyone is slowing down for the summer? I guess we are all committed a lifestyle of sitting in the shade and avoiding swimming pools.

Getting tattooed in the summer is the WORST! And yet... we are due to go to Spain (for "work") next month, so...

I bought an epilator recently, I recommend those. Although I lost mine so I haven't gotten to use it before a tattoo. I always shave before the tattoo, but I'm female so I'm used to shaving my legs without cutting them. Shaving cream is enough to avoid rashes for me.

You TOUGH. When I was a preteen and wanted to start shaving my legs, my very Old Country mother was absolutely anti-leg shaving and compromised by buying me one of these. Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch.

@Lance that is how Seattle FEELS to me right now!

@Colored Guy it's nuts. I feel like Seattle may have more aggressive crows than in other locales? Also because I've only been swooped by hawks before, so...

@MadeIndelible now you know it's not a curse, you were just near some babies! Hahaha

@polliwog @Fala I have a friend who has been attacked by swans on 3 (THREE!) different occasions!! Wtf.

It's amazing the bird stories that come out.

Swans are fucking monsters.

This is bananas!

I'm good :)

I'm back in Portland for right now, indefinitely at this point :)

The peonies were done by Jennifer Billig formerly of Atlas tattoo in Portland but most recently in Fayetteville, AR. Super nice!!

They're gorgeous!

Oh my god, those are horrible. It kinda looks like you're wearing an anatomical illustration of ovaries.

More seriously, my friend got a life-ruining, seemingly incurable case of carpal tunnel and god knows what else from working in the shipping dept. of ModCloth, so I don't buy from them now. I imagine a good deal of warehouses are as bad, though. (And H & M has its own set of serious problems. I hope one day to be able to buy ethically-sourced clothing without a hassle, but that's another discussion...)

I didn't know this. That sucks as I have bought some nice stuff from them before, but I will stop now. We stopped buying off Amazon a few months back when all those exposes came out - it is a huge bummer to generally have it confirmed that "too good to be true" shopping websites stay speedy and huge on other people's backs.

Hey guys!!

Long time no see, eh? ;)

I was just thinking about y'all, about how much I missed LST.

I've slowed way down the past few months but I'm still hard at work on the squidpants project.

It is *super* hard to get good pictures of one's own legs... the best I can do at this moment is link back to a picture I posted in the fall. You can't see all of them in it, and there are 2? (maybe 3?) more since then.

http://www.lastsparrowtattoo.com/forum/general-tattoo-discussion/4394-your-overall-look-tattooed-person-page19.html#post81060

Heeeeeeeeeeeeey lady! How are you? Your gams look great - who did those peonies?

And like 8 feet tall!

Tipping conversations on the internet are the WORST.

@polliwog - feel free to ask the artist what they'd prefer re: shaving! I've only had one actually let me know upfront that I should do it myself, a couple have said they don't care either way, etc.

Oh yeah maxi skirts on short ladies are tough, although what I like about maxi skirts is they are basically like wearing PJs only they seem fancy. On your calf-though any wide-leggish pant should be ok, and yes, boho cotton wide-leg pants seem to be everywhere at the moment!